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More information on the King's visit to Antarctica, specifically Queen Maud Land. The purpose of the visit is the 10th anniversary of the Troll Research Station, which was opened by Queen Sonja in 2005. The visit is the first time a Norwegian monarch has visited QML.

Yes, Norway fought hard on 9th April and the following couple of months. And they suffered consequently.
That included the not very likable character, Quisling, usurping power in Norway. Unfortunately for him, not even the Germans bothered to take him seriously... But the Norwegians had to...

ADDED: The Norwegian soldiers fighting around Oslo, allowed time for all the Norwegian gold reserves to be shipped out of the capital. And in a race with the German forces the 49 tonnes of gold were transported up through Norway and shipped despite attacks from Luftwaffe and German u-boats to Britain.

King Harald attended the funeral service of Samuel Steinmann at the Jewish cemetery in Oslo today, May 5th. Samuel Steinmann had been the last survivor of the 532 Norwegian Jews who had been shipped to concentration camps aboard a German ship in 1942.